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Alt-81: Future Visions for the Urban Expressway
Alt-81, a joint research initiative between the Syracuse University School of Architecture and UPSTATE: a Center for Design, Research, and Real Estate, tests opportunities for the future of urban expressways through studies of the I-81 viaduct in downtown Syracuse, NY. A site of intense interest, the viaduct reaches the end of its functional life in [...]
MOVEMENT ON MAIN: Designing the Healthy Main Street – WINNING TEAM SELECTED
WINNING TEAM SELECTED FOR MOVEMENT ON MAIN A team led by STOSS landscape urbanism, including Höweler + Yoon Architecture, Nitsch Engineering, and Angie Cradock ScD, MPE has been selected as the winning design team for the Movement on Main: Designing the Healthy Main Street competition in Syracuse. The announcement was made today by The Near [...]
Raumlabor Berlin Storms Syracuse for D+T
Raumlabor Berlin is at UPSTATE: for the week coordinating the Design and Technology Studio with Syracuse University School of Architecture graduate students. The theme is “Monster Truck” and the result will be mobile infrastructure benefiting the city. Click here for a short Monster Truck Time Lapse. Check back for additional updates.
Lowering Cost Housing Competition – Final Teams Announced!
Competition Entries were due January 15, 2013. On March 11, 2013 Deutsche Bank and Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. (Enterprise) announced four finalists in the Lowering the Cost of Housing Competition. The national contest drew responses from a wide geographic area, garnered submissions from non-profit and for-profit housing developers and reflected innovative approaches to achieving high-quality, [...]
Community Development and Design Leaders Forum in Syracuse
On June 13-14, 2013, UPSTATE: A center for design, research and real estate at the Syracuse University School of Architecture and Enterprise Community Partners will conduct a two-and-a half day, Community Development and Design Leadership Forum (CDLF) in Syracuse, NY. Building off of the success of the Enterprise Affordable Housing Design Leadership Institute and the [...]
School of Architecture Slivers Prize Winners Announced
The winners of the Syracuse School of Architecture’s Slivers Prize were selected in January of 2013. The competition involved the rethinking of the parking lot and focused specifically on the Near Westside of Syracuse.
New City X: Map of New Syracuse Design Projects
Syracuse has seen major investments in its downtown and its neighborhoods over the past 10 years. As part of the Syracuse Builds Symposium, an interactive map of Major Market Driven Projects, Syracuse University Involved Projects, on the University campus and in the city was developed and is being maintained and updated at UPSTATE: American City X, [...]
New Westside Neighborhood Plan: Full Planning Document
Conceived as an alternative to the conventional master plan, The Near West Side Neighborhood Plan proposes contemporary solutions grounded in the local assets of a post-industrial, economically devastated neighborhood on the edge of downtown Syracuse. Syracuse, like every 6th city in the world, can be defined as a “Shrinking City,” that is a city characterized [...]
New City Book Series Titles are Available
A joint imprint of the Syracuse University School of Architecture and Princeton Architectural Press, the series explores architecture, landscape architecture, infrastructure, and planning in the redevelopment of the civic realm. Topics range from the impact of federal sponsorship of design, to the study of weak market cities of the Rust Belt, to a survey [...]
Otisco Houses Land Design: Advocating Planting Native and Adaptive Species
Why We Are Advocating Planting Native and Adaptive Species: The traditional lawn has become the symbol of home. Yet its care and maintenance bear a significant negative impact on our environment. The lawn needs constant irrigation in our climate. Mowing it requires energy and creates noise and pollution. The chemical pesticides and herbicides required to [...]
Syracuse Stage
THE VISION The Syracuse Stage plaza is designed to achieve multiple functions with minimal elements. The Plaza is a public space, an outdoor performance venue for Syracuse Stage and the Syracuse University Drama Department, a frame for the Urban Video Project and a real time visual and aural registration of pedestrian activity. More than anything, The [...]
Generative Landscape Systems
GENERATIVE LANDSCAPE SYSTEMS ARC500.2 Instructor Mouzayan al Khalil Generative Landscape Systems introduce architecture students to the close reading of site in order to generate sustainable, practical, architecturally integrated and systemic approaches for landscape design. Analysis of topographic, hydrologic, geologic and surficial contextual fabric will provide data to inform techniques of intervention, and ways for the [...]